Hello there, I have an Iomega portable hard drive, which is compatible with windows 7, however, when running the Iomega Encryption Utility using the reconfiguration option to set a password for the hard drive, it told me you must format this drive before use, anyways, my windows 7 doesnt recognise it anywhere! yet before the encryption ran it did! in disk management it only shows my C drive, the Iomega showed up in my computer as a G drive but it doesnt now. Its like the computer cant see the hard drive! I wondered if anyone had any ideas out there or come across the problem before? I read about formatting the disk but it wont give me that option when the device is plugged in.

Hi, I had a similar problem wit an iomega drive, win7 didnt want to know about it no matter what i did. Dont ask why but I hooked it up to a xp pc and it saw it. I reformatted it on the xp pc machine, and voila win7 said hello to it. It now works fine on win 7.